We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.